The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia: (10,000-323 BCE)

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The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia is a unique blend of comprehensive overviews on archaeological, philological, linguistic, and historical issues at the forefront of Anatolian scholarship in the 21st century. Anatolia is home to early complex societies and great empires, and was the destination of many migrants, visitors, and invaders. The offerings in this volume bring this reality to life as the chapters unfold nearly ten thousand years (ca. 10,000-323 BCE) of peoples, languages, and diverse cultures who...
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Overview


The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia is a unique blend of comprehensive overviews on archaeological, philological, linguistic, and historical issues at the forefront of Anatolian scholarship in the 21st century. Anatolia is home to early complex societies and great empires, and was the destination of many migrants, visitors, and invaders. The offerings in this volume bring this reality to life as the chapters unfold nearly ten thousand years (ca. 10,000-323 BCE) of peoples, languages, and diverse cultures who lived in or traversed Anatolia over these millennia. The contributors combine descriptions of current scholarship on important discussion and debates in Anatolian studies with new and cutting edge research for future directions of study. The fifty-four chapters are presented in five separate sections that range in topic from chronological and geographical overviews to anthropologically based issues of culture contact and imperial structures, and from historical settings of entire millennia to crucial data from key sites across the region. The contributers to the volume represent the best scholars in the field from North America, Europe, Turkey, and Asia. The appearance of this volume offers the very latest collection of studies on the fascinating peninsula known as Anatolia.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780195376142
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publication date: 9/5/2011
  • Series: Oxford Handbooks Series
  • Pages: 1200
  • Sales rank: 1,002,251
  • Product dimensions: 7.00 (w) x 10.00 (h) x 2.40 (d)

Meet the Author

Sharon R. Steadman is Associate Professor of Anthropology, SUNY Cortland; Director of the Brooks Museum at SUNY Cortland.

Gregory McMahon is Associate Professor of History and Humanities, University of New Hampshire.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Handbook of Ancient Anatolia

PART I: The Archaeology of Anatolia: Background and Definitions
2. The Land and Peoples of Anatolia Through Ancient Eyes
3. A History of the Pre-Classical Archaeology of Anatolia
4. Anatolian Chronology and Terminology

PART II: Chronology and Geography

5. The Neolithic on the Plateau
6. The Neolithic in Southeastern Anatolia
7. The Chalcolithic on the Plateau
8. The Chalcolithic in Southeastern Anatolia
9. The Chalcolithic in Eastern Anatolia The Early Bronze Age
10. The Early Bronze Age on the Plateau
11. The Early Bronze Age in Southeastern Anatolia
12. Eastern Anatolia in the Early Bronze Age
The Middle Bronze Age
13. The
14. Southeastern and Eastern Anatolia in the Middle Bronze Age
The Late Bronze Age
15. The Late Bronze Age in the West and the Aegean
16. The Hittites on the Plateau
17. Southern and Southeastern Anatolia in the Late Bronze Age
The Iron Age

19. The Iron Age of Southeastern Anatolia
20. The Iron Age in Eastern Anatolia
21. The Greeks in Western Anatolia

PART III: Philological and Historical Topics

23. Luwian and the Luwians
24. Urartian and the Urartians
25. Phrygian and the Phrygians
26. A Political History of Hittite Anatolia
27. Anatolia:The First Millennium in Historical Context
28. Monuments and Memory: Architecture and Visual Culture in Ancient Anatolian History

PART IV: Thematic and Specific Topics

29. Eastern Thrace: The Contact Zone Between Anatolia and the Balkans
30. Anatolia and the Transcaucasus: Themes and Variations ca. 6400-1500 BCE
31. Indo-European and Indo-Europeans in Anatolia
32. Troy in Regional and International Context
33. Assyrians and Urartians
34. The Greeks in Anatolia: From the Migrations to Alexander From Pastoralists to Empires: Critical Issues
35. The Halaf Tradition
36. Millennia in the Middle? Reconsidering the Chalcolithic of Asia Minor
37. Interaction of Uruk and Northern Late Chalcolithic Societies in Anatolia
38. Ancient Landscapes in Southeastern Anatolia
39. Metals and Metallurgy
40. The Hittite State and Empire from Archaeological Evidence
41. The Hittite Empire from Textual Evidence

PART V: Key Sites

43. Çatal Höyük: A Prehistoric Settlement on the Konya Plain

45. Arslantepe-Malatya: A Prehistoric and Early Historic Center in Eastern Anatolia

47. Kültepe-Kane : A Second Millennium Trading Center on the Central Plateau
48. Key Sites of the Hittite Empire
49. Ayanis: An Iron Age Site in the East
50. Gordion: The Changing Political and Economic Roles of a First Millennium City
51. Kaman-Kalehöyük: A Bronze and Iron Age Site on the Anatolian Plateau
52. Sardis: A First Millennium Capital in Western Anatolia

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